SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.-MACKENZIE COUNTY.

(National-endowment Land.)
RUN 243, Blocks XI, XII, XV, and XVI, Tekapo Survey District, and Blocks III and IV, Burke Survey District: Area, 11,160 acres. Upset annual rental, £150.

This run is situated five miles from Lake Tekapo Post-office and Saleyards, nineteen miles from Burkes Pass School, and twenty-seven miles from Fairlie. Access is by good gravelled road to Lake Tekapo, thence five miles and a half over run country. The soil is of a light stony and rocky nature; watered by creeks. Altitude, 2,800 ft. to 6,296 ft.; comprises mostly steep, rough broken country, liable to very heavy snowfalls during the winter, but provides good summer grazing. Summer carrying capacity approximately 2,500 dry sheep, winter capacity approximately 1,000 head.
The improvements valued at £670, comprising three huts, sheep-yards, and approximately eighteen miles party boundary fencing and four miles subdivisional fencing, must be paid for in cash or alternatively by special arrangement with the outgoing licensee.

The successful applicant will require to pay immediately the full value of the improvements—£670—or, alternatively, as stated above) a half year’s rent at the price offered, and £1 ls. license fee. The term of the license will be twenty-one years from the 1st March, 1936, and including the period from date of possession to the 1st March, 1936. The license carries rights of renewal and freehold. There is a 10-per-cent. penalty on all rents unpaid after one month of due date.

Full particulars may be obtained on application to the undersigned.

J. F. QUINN,
(L. and S. 8/8/180.) Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Otago Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 20th March, 1935.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for renewable lease by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, on Tuesday, 30th April, 1935, at 11 o’clock a.m., under the provisions of the Land Act, 1924.

NOTE.—The attention of intending bidders is drawn to the fact that these lands are within the Otago Mining District and are offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.-FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Tuapeka County.—Town of Kelso.—Otago Mining District.
SECTIONS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, Block VIII : Area, 2 acres 1 rood 37·6 perches. Upset half-yearly rent, £2 10s.
Weighted with £5 (payable in cash) for improvements, comprising boundary fencing.

The sections are situated in the Town of Kelso, about half a mile from the post-office and railway-station. The area is fenced in as one block and is admirably suited as a handy paddock for a town resident. The land is all level river flat, soil sharp loam.

Full particulars may be obtained at the office of the undersigned.

N. C. KENSINGTON,
(L. and S. 6/7/157.) Commissioner of Crown Lands.

STATE FOREST SERVICE NOTICE.

Milling-timber for Sale by Public Tender.

State Forest Service,
Palmerston North, 15th March, 1935.
NOTICE is hereby given that written tenders for the purchase of the undermentioned milling-timber will close at this office at 4 p.m. on Monday, the 15th day of April, 1935.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.-WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
ALL the milling - timber on that piece of land, containing 774 acres, more or less, known as Lots 6 and 7, situated in Blocks VII and VIII, Manganui Survey District, Provisional State Forest No. 67, about four miles from Erua Railway-station.

The total estimated quantity of timber in cubic feet is 1,509,443, or in board feet 10,341,200, made up as follows:—

Upset price: £14,184.
Time for removal: Five years.

Terms of Payment.

A marked cheque for one-sixteenth of the amount tendered, together with £1 1s. license fee, must accompany the tender, and the balance be paid in fifteen equal quarterly payments, the first falling due six months after the date of sale.

Tributary Timber.

A block of tributary timber sufficient for a five-year cut will be offered to the successful tenderer at an appropriate time, at an upset price to be fixed by the Service; and, if not accepted, the tributary timber will then be offered for sale by public competition in the usual way.

Terms and Conditions.

1. All instalment-payments shall be secured by “on demand” promissory notes made and endorsed to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of State Forests, and interest at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum in excess of current bank overdraft rates will be charged on all notes overdue from the date of maturity to the date of payment.
2. The right to cut and remove the timber will be sold in accordance with the provisions of the Forests Act, 1921–22, the regulations in force thereunder, and these conditions.
3. The aforementioned quality, quantity, and kind as to the said timber shall be taken as sufficiently accurate for the purposes of this sale, and no contract for the purchase shall be voidable, nor shall the successful purchaser be entitled to any abatement in price, by reason of the said timber being of less quantity, quality, or kind as stated herein or in any advertisement having reference to the said timber.
4. A return giving the number of logs cut of each species and their contents must be made quarterly by the licensee on the last days of March, June, September, and December, respectively, in each year. A return must also be made on the same dates showing the output of sawn timber of each species. These returns may be ascertained and verified by inspection of the books of the mill, or by such other means as the Conservator may require, and for this purpose the accounts and books shall be open to the inspection of the Conservator, a Forest Ranger, or other duly authorized officer.
5. The attention of all tenderers is drawn to the fact that the local controlling body may require the successful tenderer to pay any claims or charges which may be made by that body for the maintenance of the road over which the timber may be transported, and before a sawmill license is issued a letter indicating that satisfactory arrangements have been made in this connection must be produced to the undersigned.
6. Intending tenderers are expected to visit the locality and to satisfy themselves in every particular on all matters relative to the sale.
7. Each tenderer must state the total price that he is prepared to pay for the timber. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted, and the timber described is submitted for sale subject to the final acceptance of the tender by the Commissioner of State Forests.
8. The right is reserved to the Commissioner of State Forests to withdraw from sale any or all of the said timber either before or after the closing date for receipt of tenders.
9. If no tender is accepted for the timber herein mentioned it will remain open for application at the upset price until further notice.
10. Tenders should be on the special form obtainable from any office of the State Forest Service, and should be enclosed in envelopes addressed “Conservator of Forests, Palmerston North,” and endorsed “Tender for Timber.”

The conditions, which will be inserted in the license to be issued to the purchaser, and further particulars may be obtained on application to the undersigned or to the Director of Forestry, Wellington.

D. MACPHERSON, Conservator of Forests.